US success continues for Xeros

WATERLESS washing machine specialist Xeros Technology Group, which floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in March, is continuing to make progress in the US.

Rotherham-based Xeros Technology Group, a spin-out from Leeds University which has developed an innovative polymer bead cleaning system, has announced that two further utility companies in the US, Columbia Gas and National Grid, have launched energy incentive programmes available to customers who commit to reducing their energy and water consumption through the use of a Xeros Commercial Laundry System.

These follow the announcement in May this year that Liberty Utilities had made the first payment under its own Xeros programme.

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, a subsidiary of NiSource Inc, has paid incentives totalling $33,000 to date to buy Xeros systems. Likewise, National Grid, an international utility company headquartered in the UK with broad distribution across the US East Coast, has provided incentives totalling $24,000 to date.

Bill Westwater, CEO of Xeros, said: “We now have three big US utility companies rewarding Xeros customers for investing in our technology and we expect further utility companies to announce similar incentive programmes to achieve our ultimate goal of national coverage. Customers get Xeros’ superior cleaning and efficiencies for less; utility companies are proactively addressing the very real problems of energy consumption and water scarcity in the US; and, of course, we can drive early adoption harder and wider in our key geography and market.

“This is all part of our growing momentum in the commercial laundry market, particularly in the US.”